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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by asdkhadsj on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:32AM (#19170733)
> The key is not to eliminate dynamic linkage, but rather to apply it with discretion, at carefully defined boundaries.

Question: In the right system, does discretion even matter? Eg, NixOS - where linked libraries and dependencies are defined by content addressing. Should we use discretion with linked libs in a system like that?

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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by ingenieroariel on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:35AM (#19170763)
When I started developing in golang I used to prefer static binaries without cgo 100% of the time. Now that I have moved to NixOS and each binary can either use the one in the system or provide their own libc if it is different I feel much better about it. I don't think we need to use discretion in a system like that.
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